There's nothing at all wrong with Iran's missile program. It is its last line of defense against aggression. Why should it be defenseless? It's crazy that this is an issue at all. Fear Iran's missiles? Then don't attack it. Simple.

Global warming has accelerated “significantly” over the past 10 years, meaning the world may barrel through crucial global warming limits faster than expected, according to the study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

This story suggests that Witkoff and Kushner bungled the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand nuclear technology www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

Just as I predicted, Israel is starting to look to end the war (according to the Wash Post). The problem is that Iran wants this to be the last US/Israel-Iran war, and to achieve that the war has to be prolonged, so that it can inflict sufficient punishment on Israel.

"The U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last June buried Iran's uranium stockpile under rubble. The Iranians themselves haven't been able to reach it since, U.S. and Israeli officials say." All well known, yet some still say that war was needed to stop Iran from enriching uranium.

This is partly due to the fact that Democrats, like Americans more generally, simply don't pay much attention to foreign affairs. I mean, there are so many different angles one might take to oppose this immoral, illegal and dumb war, but you have to know certain facts to do so, and they don't.

Trump Is Dangerously Close to Sending Troops to Iran: Sources Tell Zeteo

Trump might simply be lying, but a worse possibility can't be dismissed out of hand: He actually believes what he's saying. An American president who is somehow able to believe what he wants is a dangerous thing.

Once Israel and the U.S. launched their war on Iran, Israel closed the crossings into Gaza and cut off all aid. Palestinians in the Strip now fear a return to famine amid food shortages and soaring prices.

1/ PM Carney: you can and must categorically rule out participation in this illegal war. Your unqualified support of Trump and Netanyahu’s war was bad enough. It’s unconscionable that you’re now considering putting Canadian forces in harm’s way.

McGovern: How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it. Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of pathetic Neocon Warmongers.

It's odd, if Iran was planning on attacking the US in the region, that it would sit and watch the US build up forces in the region over a period of six weeks, and decide to attack only this build-up was complete.

Tehran today, under Israeli bombardment. According to Iranian monarchists in exile, only regime supporters are killed in these indiscriminate bombings...

@markcarneyforpm.bsky.social is an embarrassment to Canada. He doesn't understand the issues. The international system (IS) of arms control is constituted in part by the NPT, which allows uranium enrichment at low levels. But the US/Israel were demanding zero enrichment. So the IS didn't fail.

Had the pleasure of reviewing Lionel McPherson's new book, "The Afterlife of Race: An Informed Philosophical Search." You can access it here: academic.oup.com/mind/advance...

Right. We should also question the claim that Iran would have attacked the US if Israel alone attacked Iran. We saw in the 12-day war that while the US was assisting in the defense of Israel from the beginning, Iran attacked the US only after the US bombed its nuclear facilities.

No, officer, it was self-defense, see. I was walking with my drunk, beligerent friend, when he says he's gonna smack this brute in front of us. I knew if that happened, the brute was sure to come swinging for me - so I had no choice. I stood my ground and shot that brute before things got crazy.

Canada once rejected America’s aggressive, unlawful foreign policy. Today Mark Carney embraced it #Opinion

Well said @allyfromnola.bsky.social:

For those who don't know, the 12-day war was almost just as baseless as this war. Netanyahu decided to attack Iran in 2024, and later had his intelligence agencies cook the intelligence to support an attack. See Gerry Shih's important reporting on this: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Many figures among Iran's leadership think that it should have gotten nukes, but Khamenei was adamantly opposed. The new SL is more likely to be open to the idea. Which makes this whole situation kind of absurd: killing the person blocking nukes in the name of preventing Iran from getting nukes.

"If the US ends up withdrawing [from the Iran nuclear deal], it sets the Middle East on a path to two possible futures: 1) A nuclear Iran. 2) War. Both are much worse than the status quo." Oct 2017, warning against breaking JCPOA, saying no "better deal" would arise. I was hardly the only one.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Not a single word about international law—these attacks are clearly, unambiguously illegal. Not a single word about sovereignty—Carney’s supposed bedrock value, as claimed in Davos. No concern about Iran being attacked by the US while pursuing diplomacy—as Canada embarks on existential USMCA talks.

US and Israeli attack on Iran: At least 40 girls reported killed in strike on school. Dozens of children aged between seven and 12 hit in attack on Minab city. www.middleeasteye.net/news/least-2...

You almost have to admire the hubris of trying to frame this as a “preemptive attack” when the ENTIRE PURPOSE IS TO PROVOKE A RESPONSE FROM IRAN in order to justify ongoing and more extensive strikes.

I'm afraid that the order has been given, and that Trump will start a war with Iran in the next day or two, if not sooner.

Trump was closer to the truth then, but he's lying now: Israeli/US strikes did significantly damage Iran's nuclear program, and it has made little effort to restart it. The real issue now is ballistic missiles. Israel wants to be able to bomb Iran with impunity, but this would be a hard sell for war

NEW: The Trump administration's 3 key claims about Iran's nuclear & missile programs are false or unproven — including Iran "soon" making a missile that can hit the US. Intel analysts are concerned about aides exaggerating threats and misusing intelligence. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...

If another country suspects that Americans have drugs on their boat are they allowed to blow it up and kill everyone too, or are only we allowed to do that?

Iran’s uranium-enrichment program has stalled, say experts, despite Washington’s top negotiator saying Tehran could make fissile material for a bomb within days.

In perhaps one of the worst troubling moments of his speech, Trump claimed that the war in Gaza was over, but for “little flames.” The “little flames” were the lives of more than 600 Palestinians murdered by Israel since the start of the ceasefire.

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Writing in the FT yesterday, @gideonrachman.bsky.social makes a point that I have been thinking about lately: A military triumph in Iran "could well increase Trump's appetite for risk, raising the possibility of calamity." Iran may well stand between us and WW III. www.ft.com/content/73eb...

My god. Top Democrats including Schumer and Jeffries are trying to block the Massie-Khanna war powers resolution that would force members to go on record about whether they support war with Iran.

Congratulations to the late Charles W. Mills! Winner of the first Posthumous Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award! Read more: caribbeanphilosophy.org/frantz-fanon

Failing to oppose this war should be considered disqualifying for Democrats running for office in the near future, especially since silence (or worse, support) is probably indicative of support for Israel (since, make no mistake, this is an Israeli-engineered war).

Harris had to tread carefully given not just pro-Israel voters, but the powerful pro-Israel lobby. Voters should have taken that into account and carefully parse her words to see if she would be harder on Israel. She would have (she favored conditioning arms sales to Israel). See this 2024 article:

Talk about an improvident use of limited resources. If I'm China, I speed up plans to move on Tiawan

This represents a real potential breakthrough. It means that the Trump admin may match its actions with its words: its claim that it is only concerned with preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. It would abandon additional Israeli demands that have nothing to do with that aim.

U.N.-backed investigators say Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces have carried out a campaign in el-Fasher that shows hallmarks of genocide against non-Arab communities.

Lots of anti-Trump folks are saying this, but it betrays ignorance of the situation in Iran. The US & esp. Israeli really did damage Iran's nuclear program. That's partly why Iran has made little effort to restart nuclear activities. So Trump is going to war over a program that is not even active.

This is what American voters need to understand. Trump's red line last Spring was essentially 'No nuclear weapons,' and negotiations proceeded swimmingly. But then he started listening to Netanyahu, adding various red lines that Iran rejects, now even removing (according to the WSJ) sanctions relief

It is shocking how close Trump has taken us to the brink of war with Iran without any significant debate. Diplomacy in Geneva could provide an offramp to delay a confrontation. But the odds favor continued confrontation, not a breakthrough.

This may seem to be coming out of nowhere (since I don't post much about my academic work here), but I think people are wrong to view Rawls' turn to political liberalism as rooted in Locke. Instead, it's Locke's friend Philipp van Limborch, who in turn owed much of his ideas to Simon Episcopius. 1/

Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir “stepped on prisoners’ heads” at Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank last Friday, a Palestinian rights group said Monday. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260216-ext...

Crossing climate tipping points "would lock the world into a new and hellish 'hothouse Earth' climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach." Probably fine.

Rubio's speech in Munich yesterday is quite troubling. He wants a renewed US-Europe alliance that recognizes - and resists threats against - their common "civilizational" inheritance, casts off any shame about their past actions and renews their imperial dominance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOjB...